You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“How about this?” she retorted, her voice deceptively flirtatious, and in that small, stolen moment in his mind, he quickly spun and… — J. Tonzelli Copy Share Image
“There's only so much evidence a small Jack Russell can dispose of.” — Peter Coomber Copy Share Image
I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers or brain cleansers. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“I knew a girl and she felt like art. Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and… — Melanie Sargsian Copy Share Image
“And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
